Very Special Magic Club Reports

 

Susan Hachette, Club Secretary

Susan Hachette (pronounced like ‘hat-CHAY’) is the secretary for the Centre Michigan Magic Club. The modest organization is dedicated to the promotion of all forms of magic in “all kinds of people.”

You’ve probably have never heard of Ms. Hachette or the Centre Michigan Magic Club. To be honest, neither had I until I received the following note last week:

Sirs or Madams:

We are a small magic club here in Michigan. We like to think of ourselves as amateur magicians who get paid for performing their hobby. I am writing to you today because we cannot get our words out to the mainstream magic population. Our club has 22 full-time members and about 11 more when summer comes and people vacation here in Centre.

The Centre Michigan Magic Club is not a member of the IBM or the Society of American Magicians because they did not want us to join. We are like the Amish to them ? not that we are Amish but we do have a Mennonite couple who perform but in regular clothes.

The major organizations do not want to have magicians like us in their organization because they think we will take away from the commercialism of their organizations.

I am not saying we are better than the other clubs in the IBM or the Society of American Magicians. We are just different than they are. Because I am the secretary for the club, I have been writing up reports of the meetings but because we can’t get membership in the IBM or the Society of American Magicians, they don’t get published.

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